Taffety Punk Theatre Company presented a new collaboration between myself and choreographer Micheline Heal featuring music for piano, cello, and live computer-generated sound. The new piece, Garden for Wayward Girls was on the finale concert for the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop’s three-week long modern dance event, “Dance Craze”.
Choral Music
I grew up steeped in the British and American choral traditions – developing a deep love for both high church and Appalachian folk music – and absorbed my first compositional chops at a young age from my choirmaster Richard Wayne Dirksen. My own music combines the long, soaring lines of great cathedral music with the rhythmic subtlety and passion of American traditions. I am most drawn to passionate but introverted texts that explore the innermost thoughts and struggles each of us share.
Trade Winds (choir and percussion ensemble) - information and recording
Song of These States (choir and concert band) - information
A Coptic Requiem – information
Missa Ecclesiae – information and recording
Missa Brevis – information
A Song for Peace – information
La rosa blanca – information and recording
And All for Your Love’s Sake – information
A Baptismal Lullaby – information and recording
I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes – information and recording
Out of the Deep (TTBB) – information and recording
At the Manger (SSAATTBB) – information and recording
My Luve (ATTBB) – information
God Is Our Refuge (choir and organ) – information
Alpha et Omega (choir and tape) – information
When We Gather in Music (choir and piano or organ)
Three Anthems for Unaccompanied Choirs – information and recording
The Lord Is My Light (SATB)
Who Can Tell (ATB)
Hear My Cry, O God (SA)